Definition of Suppliants

1. Noun. (plural of suppliant) ¹

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Definition of Suppliants

1. suppliant [n] - See also: suppliant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suppliants

supplest
suppletion
suppletions
suppletive
suppletively
suppletories
suppletory
suppli
suppli al telefono
supplial
supplials
suppliance
suppliances
suppliant
suppliantly
suppliants
supplicancy
supplicant
supplicants
supplicate
supplicated
supplicates
supplicating
supplicatingly
supplication
supplications
supplicative
supplicator
supplicators
supplicatory

Literary usage of Suppliants

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Euripides and the Spirit of His Dramas by Paul Decharme (1906)
"II FOREIGN POLICY THE CHILDREN OF HERACLES THE Suppliants THE greater part of ... It is his voice we hear when Adrastus, in the Suppliants, standing by the ..."

2. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"We come next to the trilogy which may be called the Danais, and of which only the middle piece is preserved in the Suppliants. An historical and political ..."

3. The Canada Law Journal by Law Society of Upper Canada, William S. Hein & Company, Canadian Bar Association (1916)
"The South Shore Railway Company not being in a position to enforce payment of the subsidy in dispute, the suppliants as assignees of the said company are ..."

4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1851)
"... a sort of faint reflection of the Suppliants, in the dialectical match between ... and that the Theban herald in the Suppliants may be compared with the ..."

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